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Argonne National Laboratory postdoctoral appointee Maricris Lodriguito Mayes was awarded the IBM-Löwdin Award for Postdoctoral Associates at the 53rd Sanibel Symposium for her work “Quantum-Chemical Studies of the Mechanical and Optical Properties of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes.”

Lauded as a stepping-stone to exascale-class computers, scientists around the globe will have their first opportunity to compete for 2013 system time on Mira with the opening of the 2013 INCITE Program call for proposals (April 11– June 27, 2012).

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is featuring innovative research conducted in collaboration with industry partners at the Industry-National Laboratory Workshop on Modeling and Simulation on March 7-8 in Austin, Texas.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility showcased breakthrough science and engineering advances at the "Materials for Energy Applications" workshop, held January 30-February 1, 2012, in Berkeley, California. Representatives from all 17 Department of Energy national laboratories met with dozens of representatives from the private sector, ranging from startups such as Alphabet Energy to smaller Silicon Valley companies such as Nanosys to major corporations such as Chevron, Procter & Gamble, Honeywell and United Technologies. A total of 252 people participated.

Argonne (UChicago Argonne, LLC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Jülich Research Centre) located in Jülich, Germany. The MOU was signed to promote scientific and technological cooperation in the f

Researchers at CERFACS and Laboratoire d’Aérologie recently received an INCITE award of 20 million hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) to study the contrail-to-cirrus transition. "This project aims at understanding the physics of the formation of contrail cirrus, which occurs when the effects of the atmospheric perturbations become predominant, compared to the dynamics of the aircraft wake where ice particles are initially trapped," notes INCITE PI Roberto Paoli, CERFACS.

Engineers are hard at work building the infrastructure that will support Mira, the ALCF’s 10-petaflops Blue Gene/Q system with no time to spare: The first two racks of the new system—named Cetus and Vesta—arrived at the datacenter on January 4.

Twenty researchers representing each of the ALCF’s major allocation programs (INCITE, discretionary and Early Science Program) attended the ALCF’s Winter Workshop, held January 23-26 at Argonne National Laboratory.